An apple a day

This morning we separated some green gages to give away to a friend. However when my better half came back from the village in the morning she said we had to go a pick some apples from a villager with a tall tree.

After lunch we set off with our fishing rod apple picker and carefully removed three basket loads of Ballerina apples from their tree. For our efforts we took all the damaged ones and a few of the nice ones home, then went to out to our orchard to check it before the start of autumn. At our orchard we collected about two dozen Worcester Pearmain apples (blipped here) and a few Orleans Reinette. We then went to the community orchard and collected all the wind fallen apples, finally dropping our gages of at a friend, in exchange for about 2.5 kg of grapes!

The plan this morning was to get rid of our surplus fruit, by the end of the day we had even more than we started - plus all the windfall and many of the gages need to be eaten/processed at once or they will rot.